"If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism."
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"Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology."
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"I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing."
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"A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him."
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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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"An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer."
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"In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well."
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"Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must."
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"All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized."
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"Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent."
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"Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."
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"Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority."
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"There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures."
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